High School Creative Writing

This eight-week course focuses on creative writing. If you value creative expression, you will love this engaging course. But it’s not just fun and games. Writing coaches use the assignments to teach principles that apply to all writing endeavors. In addition to a diagnostic assignment, students will write creative compositions in three drafts, each under the guidance and instruction of their personal writing coach.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students who complete the course will be able to…

• write effective narrative and descriptive papers.
• respond to coach feedback on their writing through revising and proofreading.
• understand and apply concepts like clarity, conciseness, and coherence to their writing.
• understand and apply the concept of showing rather than telling in their writing.
• engage the writing process by employing the following five steps in composing every paper: prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, publishing.
• improve their writing across a wide range of broad evaluative areas, including content, style, and form.